Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Without wanting to criticise anyone in particular but 2000PLN for 25m2 IS excessive regardless whether it's in Warsaw or Walsall. Going back to my original question, who determines what is fair market value? It's very easy to say "the market" but there are many factors that affect the market value. Supply and demand is one thing, excess demand over supply, but surely property speculators play a major part in this. Like milky says, people are buying to rent to others, it drove the price of property and rents up in the UK so it's obvious it will do the same in Poland therefore people do affect that market. Also the lack of decent, affordable social housing forces people into the private rented sector so people are forced into paying over inflated prices for property.

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]


Who decides what is fair market value? 2000PLN for 25m2 sounds excessive to me. Are students in Poland richer than here in the UK because there's no student I know that could afford paying the UK equivalent of 2000PLN a month to rent a bachelor pad for themself.

Travel / Getting from Krakow to Warszawa (Warsaw) on the 8th of June opening game of European Championship [4]

If you're going via Inter City then it's usual to reserve a seat. Kraków - Warszawa - Kraków is probably the only train journey in Poland worth paying the extra fare on the Inter City as it is actually a lot quicker than the TLK service.

Study / Is it really worth moving back to Poland to study in a pharmacy school? [44]

It might be cheaper to study there, depending on where you live now. If you live in the UK then once the new course fees start for the uni courses in the UK universities you could easily be £30k in debt by the time you finish uni.

Life / Polish people and racism. [943]

I have heard there are some English and Irish who do not like Poles. They seek out internet forums which lots of Polish people use and write many nasty things. What should I do? :(

Love / Mixed Race Relationships (Polish guy married a Filipino/Spanish) [13]

I don't see the point in any of these kind of threads to be honest. Are people that insecure that they need the blessing of total strangers from an internet forum before they procreate? Does it matter if some narrow minded knuckle draggers disapprove of mixed race relationships let alone disapprove if people then have children in that relationship?

History / Poland, Lacking External Enemies, Turns on Itself [106]

Poland would be very stupid to allow any US military installations on its territory. We owe the USA nothing. The US betrayed us at Tehran and Yalta, lied to us about maintaining the territorial integrity of our borders and are only sucking up the the Polish government now because it wants its misiile shield on our territory.

Language / Polish war cries/battle sayings [21]

I think he meant "Jeszcze Polska nie zgineła".

Work / Brazilian in Poland needing help - ideas to find a job? [22]

From a purely academic assessment given what he has written here he'd be placed in an intermediate/upper intermediate bracket.

I'd also say his English was a lot better than many of the natives too ;)

Work / Brazilian in Poland needing help - ideas to find a job? [22]

Brazylia, you speak 3 languages and are learning a 4th, no need to apologise. It's more than most people are able to do. :)

Work / Brazilian in Poland needing help - ideas to find a job? [22]

A few basic written errors in your post suggest to me your English isn't as advanced as you think. As for looking for work, well, without seeing your full CV it's impossible for anyone to give you advice. If you can't speak reasonable Polish then the only thing I can think of right now is in catering establishments where the stafff speak Portuguese, Spanish or english and where you will have minimal contact with the customers until your Polish improves. If you can get a teaching qualification you could always teach Portuguese in a language school.

USA, Canada / Living in Poland - prospects for Alabama guy ... need some advice! [146]


South Park? :D

Anyway, seriously, give it a go in Poland. America isn't going anywhere, if things don't work out in Poland you can move back. As you say, women are fickle but are us guys any different? She moved over there for you, why can't you give it a try in Poland?

USA, Canada / Living in Poland - prospects for Alabama guy ... need some advice! [146]


Proper football you can get in every major city and small town in Poland. The American version is only played in America anyway, along with those other sports the Yanks invented for themselves as they're pretty useless at sports normal people play everywhere else in the world ;)

Travel / Traveling From Warsaw to Berlin - train? [25]

rozklad-pkp.pl

Life / A recent visit to Poland. First time after 12 years. [19]


Is this because they try and assimilate and try and respect the people of the host country? Brits and Yanks could do with a lesson in this.

I have been going to Poland on a regular basis since I was a kid amd since 2004 been going 4 times a year and I have seen plenty of changes. Even some of the horrible commie era tower blocks have had a makeover. Where did you visit? Oh, and your school has had 12 years of use since 2000.


Yeah, I wish they wouldn't do that


This sounds more like you have been to London. Are you sure you weren't in London, not Poland? Wow, you even found time to leave London and visit Yorkshire :)


If they were smooth and straight then you'd say they were lifeless and lacked charachter.


They were sounding you out to see if you had room to take them in once they decide to emigrate :)


Despite reports in the American press to the contrary, Poland is not a 3rd world country situated in the darkest depths of an Eastern European primeval forest. The outside world and 21st century consumerism has actually reached Poland.

How do you know Western stations aren't the ones doing the copying?


Paris? Milan? Madrid?


You mean like Thailand, Vietnam, Egypt and Alabama? ;)


You mean your peers aren't the 1% the rest of us 99%ers work our socks off for so we keep them in their priveliged life styles?

I'm looking forward to flying out to Poland at the end of next month. I always enjoy my time there :)

Travel / Watch out for airport personnel stealing stuff on regional Polish airports. [64]


I travel with a rucksack most of the time and I tie and lock the straps up in the same way every time and pack in a certain way. There's been many a time I have got the rucksack off the carousel and I know someone has been inside it because it's been tied up in a much different way than I do it and things have been disturbed inside but I've never found a report of a search once. I always carry any valuables in my hand luggage which I never put down as I know how quick these sneak thieves can be.

UK, Ireland / Poland continues to milk Ireland dry. [129]

If Ireland was run how you'd like it to be run you'd be having the Union Jack flying over Dublin and the Black and Tans running amok. You're a sorry excuse for an Irishman.

UK, Ireland / Poland continues to milk Ireland dry. [129]

Revoke, you guys have spread all over the world for centuries. There are more Irish living outside Ireland than there are back home. The island of Ireland couldn't cope if all the Irish were forcibly repatriated. Your bigoted right wing nationalistic views have more in common with the EDL than most Irish people I know. I'm beginning to think you are an EDL troll pretending to be Irish.

UK, Ireland / Poland continues to milk Ireland dry. [129]

The Poles, like the Irish, seem to be a nation of emigrants. Maybe all the Irish living in England should "foook off back to ireland" to leech off the irish government instead of the British one? No, they shouldn't, why should they. They have worked and paid their taxes and NI contributions and are entitled to claim what is rightfully theirs just as the Poles in Ireland are entitled to do so. So Mr Revoke, before you jump on your "all immigrants go home" bandwagon, just think about all the Irish all over the world and remember they are also immigrants in someone else's country.

UK, Ireland / My dream about UK. Please help. [86]

Noreen, are there not any recruitment agencies in your city hiring Polish workers for the UK job market? There used to be several in Wroclaw, Kraków and Warszawa a few years ago. I know the job situation over here isn't good at the moment, around 3 million unemployed, but as Vincent says, coming over here without anywhere to stay, not having a lot of money or knowing anyone is probably not a very good thing to do at the moment.

UK, Ireland / Why English do not like Polish? [417]

Im467, you're funny. You could have written that about any immigrant group. Just change the wording around, eg Afro-Carribean, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi etc etc and you have yourself a template to have a go at anyone. Poles aren't perfect but we're no worse than any other groups that have settled in the UK in the last 60-70 years.

Off-Topic / I am Polish and I am offended. [52]

I am fairly new to this forum but I do not see what is wrong with defending Poland's reputation against those who wish to denegrate it. Even the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes the issue seriously as this statement clearly shows. msz.gov.pl/The,New,York,Times,corrected,statement,about,the,rise,of,Nazism,in,Poland,51314.html

History / Which countries are Polands friends, which are Polands enemies? [75]


What bits were those? Anything left in good working ordered was often stripped out and packed off to Russia.


Just because you choose not to believe the truth doesn't mean I'm lying. If you care to do some research you'll find easily enough what I have written in my post is true.

History / Which countries are Polands friends, which are Polands enemies? [75]

The fact that their friends in the Red Army had destroyed what the the Nazis hadn't meant that the country was still going under massive reconstruction well into the 60s and early 70s so it's no wonder there was plenty of work around.

History / Which countries are Polands friends, which are Polands enemies? [75]


It is not complete bollocks. After the war the British government did everything it possibly could to persuade Poles to return back to Poland but with the Communists murdering senior members of the AK and also leading figures from the Polish government-in-exile people were reluctant to go back. Many did go back and many of them were arrested, persecuted and intimidated by the Communists that they left again. Those who stayed in Britain ended up being forced to live in "displaced persons camps" many of which used to be prisoner-of-war camps; the Poles who used to guard the prisoners became the inmates themselves. Eventually, after the passing of the Polish Resettlement Act of 1947 over 200,000 settled in the UK but in the next few years 50-70,000 left the UK for Canada, Australia and the USA.

Even though there was a labour shortage and virtually full employment in the years following the end of WW2, British trade unions objected to employers taking on Polish workers with the TUC being at the forefront of an anti Polish campaign, many Poles would face daily abuse in the workplace and there was prejudice displayed towards Poles when seeking housing with signs in windows saying "No Irish, blacks or Poles" not uncommon.

Work / Turkish bachelor student wants to study and live in Poland [22]

You'll need an English course. There are several grammtical and spelling mistakes in your post but you do have a reasonably high standard of English :)

History / Poland did reasonably well in land terms out of the postwar settlement [270]


That's a new one on me. Where did you dream up this fantasy?

Life / Polish history as a school subject in western Europe [24]

I was born and raised in England and all I was taught in school about Poland was how "easily" we were invaded at the start of WW2 and how we all became communists after the war.

Language / Wesołego Alleluja or Wesołych Świąt? [30]

I was born and brought up in the UK and I have always used the phrase for both feasts.

Travel / Polish Road Tax ViaToll , a legal rip off before Euro 2012 ? [26]

Why criticise the country? Why not criticise the decision made by the individual police officer? Maybe the police officer behaved beyond his powers, maybe he didn't. Who knows?